Expert-Grup

Position Paper. From Supervising Inspections to Inspecting Market Surveillance: How Proposed Amendments to Legislation May Harm the Public Interest and the EU Accession Process

Politici de creștere economicăIntegrare europeanăThursday, 28 November 20241908 views
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The Independent Think Tank “Expert-Grup” and the Institute for European Policies and Reforms have published a position paper on the draft law amending Law No. 131/2012 on state control and related sectoral laws, which the Government approved on 20 November 2024 and sent to Parliament.

The authors welcome the dropping of a proposal to make the State Chancellery a single liaison office for market surveillance authorities. However, the draft still contains provisions that seriously undermine Law No. 162/2023 on market surveillance and product compliance, which the European Commission found in 2024 to be a faithful transposition of EU Regulation 2019/1020.

The paper argues that the proposals in Article XXXVII do not comply with the EU acquis, are not justified, upset the balance between business interests and consumer rights protection, and could seriously affect Moldova’s EU accession. It calls for market surveillance to no longer be subordinated to the law on state control and offers further recommendations. It was produced under the “Civil Society for European Integration” project, funded by the European Union and co-funded by Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Moldova.

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